NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Library of Medicine mean? 

• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE has 1 sense:

1. the world's largest medical library

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The world's largest medical library

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

National Library of Medicine; U.S. National Library of Medicine; United States National Library of Medicine

Instance hypernyms:

library (a building that houses a collection of books and other materials)

Holonyms ("National Library of Medicine" is a part of...):

National Institutes of Health; NIH (an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government)

 Context examples 

EXAMPLE(S): CP2 Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (NCI); LM National Library of Medicine (NLM).

(Government Funding NIH Institute Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus.

(Medical Subject Headings, NCI Thesaurus)

A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health, and collaborating academic research institutions developed a method to measure a type of gene mutation involved in the evolution of cancer.

(Researchers uncover role of repetitive DNA and protein sequences in tumor evolution, National Institutes of Health)